The flag had the words 'LGBTs for Trump' scrawled across it in marker pen

Eventually the candidate handed it back to an aide after audience member Max Nowak gave it to him during the rally at the Bank of Colorado Arena on the University of Northern Colorado campus yesterday.

Trump is less than popular with members of the LGBT community across the US.

He has tried to appeal to the community by expressing his support throughout his campaign – promising protection from “violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology” in the aftermath of the Florida terror attack at a gay night club.

But the White House hopeful has also said he was against same sex marriage.

And his running mate Mike Pence signed an act that allowed businesses to discriminate against LGBT people on the basis of their religious beliefs.

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With less than nine days until Americans go to the polls, Trump is hitting the campaign trail in Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado.

The Republican campaigned hard Sunday, attending church in Las Vegas, before leading three rallies in Nevada, Colorado and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

"We all know about Hillary's mounting legal troubles, that she has brought onto herself with her serial, wilful, purposeful and deliberate criminal conduct," Trump told the crowd in New Mexico.

"Hillary Clinton is not the victim, you the American people are the victims of this corrupt system in every single way and folks this is your last chance to save it," he said to chants of "lock her up."

The Republican's approval rating among members of the LGBT community sits at just 12 per cent

The 70-year-old tycoon repeatedly has described his rival’s email controversy as "the single biggest scandal since Watergate".

The Clinton campaign has reacted with fury to the FBI’s move to launch a fresh probe, demanding the director explain the decision in detail.

"It was long on innuendo, short on facts," Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta told CNN.

The US Senate's top Democrat told the FBI chief that through "partisan actions, you may have broken the law."

"As soon as you came into possession of the slightest innuendo related to Secretary Clinton, you rushed to publicize it in the most negative light possible," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said in a statement.

While the candidate looking to make history as America's first female president remains the overwhelming favourite, her lead in the polls is narrowing.

An ABC News/Washington Post survey put the Democratic presidential candidate just one point ahead of her Republican challenger.

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